Diluted Dante wrote:Based on his Metal Gear routine, and the Gears tale he told on some TV show, I suspect he'd be just as bad.
MattyJ wrote:I like this show. I view it as something like Question of Sport or whatever, where it's a show about a subject matter I'm interested in and treats it with respect. They've shown quite a wide variety of games from all different eras. Sure they do the whole jokey, light entertainment thing, but let's face it: this could be far, far worse.
nick_md wrote:MattyJ wrote:I like this show. I view it as something like Question of Sport or whatever, where it's a show about a subject matter I'm interested in and treats it with respect. They've shown quite a wide variety of games from all different eras. Sure they do the whole jokey, light entertainment thing, but let's face it: this could be far, far worse.
They tend to have sporting experts/personalities/pros on that tho eh?
Tempy wrote:The problem with being "good at games" is that its very rare that someone, outside of like maybe Dubs or whatever, is actually genuinely good at all games. Being good at games in the mainstream is like, being able to innately understand control simple schemes and parse the game's conveyance of instruction and objective at you.
So a show where each week celebs turn up to be pwned at games? Sounds great.nick_md wrote:Tempy wrote:The problem with being "good at games" is that its very rare that someone, outside of like maybe Dubs or whatever, is actually genuinely good at all games. Being good at games in the mainstream is like, being able to innately understand control simple schemes and parse the game's conveyance of instruction and objective at you.
I dunno, people tend to be of a similar level across most games I find.
I go back again to my earlier comment: have one sick head and one celeb on each team. Sorted. Best of both.
nick_md wrote:pro v pro.
Diluted Dante wrote:I wouldn't say people generally have a similar skill across games at all. Games within a genre maybe, but someone good at Halo won't automatically be good at FIFA, or Rock Band Street Fighter or Hexic.
That's exactly the format they use.nick_md wrote:I mean, most comedy panel shows will have a pro (comedian) as the team captain, with one or two non pros either side, no? It's a pretty standard format.
nick_md wrote:Are you doing this deliberately?
It works for other shows because comedy is the subject matter. For this show the expert element of a team should come from someone who knows games.
I give up.
Yossarian wrote:Comedy is pretty much never the subject matter, it's usually current affairs, or the ability to spot lies, or opinion polls, or words and numbers games. The team captains are rarely journalists, police interrogators, heads of polling companies or Scrabble champions. Why? Because it'd be as tedious as fuck.
Dark Soldier wrote:No real point in team experts when you've got the lass filling that role.nick_md wrote:Are you doing this deliberately? It works for other shows because comedy is the subject matter. For this show the expert element of a team should come from someone who knows games. I give up.
You're onto something here, Skondo. A magazine programme with funny, knowledgable discussion of a few videogame news items, a review or two of games or hardware, a celebrity on to take part in a challenge... I'd watch that.Skondo wrote:Top Gear
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